Anna Wickham

“I was a rebel from my birth, I am a rebel till I die.”

“For I am sick of duties, A household's trivial round, Wherein no high adventure, No ecstasy is found.”

“If I had a lover who was a tall man, I would not be in awe of him, I would be a person to his person.”

“I must have my own house, my own garden and my own liberty.”

“It is a great thing to be a woman, when a woman is a great thing.”

“I have to thank God I'm a woman, for in these ordered days a woman only is free to be very hungry, very lonely, very messy, very silly, very angry, very sad, very everything.”

“My mind is a flooded country, where the dykes of my reason have broken.”

“The flesh is a good thing; But the flesh is a sad thing.”

“Because of your love I have come to be, A mighty woman, a proud and free.”

“God, thou great symmetry, Who put a biting lust in me From whence my sorrows spring, For all the frittered days That I have spent in shapeless ways, Give me one perfect thing.”

“Let us thank God for the plague of women, that they are not all of one kind.”

“I am the wife of a man of God, I am the mother of his son; And I have no right to a separate thought, Or a life of my own, not one.”